West Point Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to…
— Buzz Aldrin
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In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only those who have…
— John J. Pershing
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I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point.
— George Stoneman
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You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought…
— Samuel Fuller
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Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The Institute.
— Craig Claiborne
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If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there…
— Calvin Trillin
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Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.
— Omar N. Bradley
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During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship…
— Bobby Knight
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Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.
— George S. Patton
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He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I went to college. West Point is technically a college.
— Lee Child
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My father was career military. He was a veteran, he was a doctor of political science, he taught at West Point and Air Command Staff…
— Suzanne Collins
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My dad being an Army officer, I was just born to it. I was raised in a military manner, and it was a given that…
— John Eisenhower
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Maybe it was the challenge of flight, the opportunity to fly, the competition of summer camp and the inspiration and discipline of West Point. I…
— Buzz Aldrin
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I was driven when I was younger. Driven at West Point where it was much more competitive in that women were competing with men on…
— Paula Broadwell
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The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany.
— Gordon Sinclair
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I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy…
— Rutherford B. Hayes
Who Wrote These West Point Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 West Point Quotes as follows: